Topper's Seventieth Anniversary

Dancing Quote: - "We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams."

Did You Know Than In October 1946.....

• October 1 – Mensa, an international organization for people with a high intelligence quotient (IQ), is founded by Roland Berrill, an Australian-born lawyer, and Dr Lancelot Ware, an English biochemist and lawyer, in Oxford.
• October 2 – Communists take over in Bulgaria.
• October 6 – Sweden's Prime Minister Per Albin Hansson dies in office of a heart attack.
• October 10 – Commencement of the Noakhali genocide of Hindus in Bengal at the hands of Muslim mobs.
• October 11 – After a few days of vacancy, the Swedish premiership is taken over by Tage Erlander.
• October 13 – France adopts the constitution of the Fourth Republic.
• October 14 – International Organization for Standardization (ISO) founded.
• October 15 – Nuremberg trials: Hermann Göring, founder of the Gestapo and recently convicted Nazi war criminal, poisons himself two hours before his scheduled execution.
• October 16 - The remaining ten Nazi war criminals sentenced to death at the Nuremberg trials are executed by hanging in a gymnasium in the Nuremberg Palace of Justice.
  The United Nations' first meeting in Long Island is held.
• October 19 - Topper's held their first dinner dance.

Did You Know? - The coining of the word "photography" is usually attributed to Sir John Herschel in 1839. It is based on the Greek φῶς (phos), (genitive: phōtós) meaning "light", and γραφή (graphê), meaning "drawing, writing", together meaning "drawing with light".

Did You Know? - It's the world's biggest bomber!

The new B-36: Photographed during its third test flight out of Fort Worth, Texas

You're looking at the gigantic new B-36 in flight — the biggest land-based bomber in the world!

Designed and built by Consolidated Vultee and the US Army Air Forces, the B-36 dwarfs any other bomber now in existence. With its 6 "pusher-type" Pratt & Whitney Wasp Major engines of 3000 horsepower each, the B-36 is designed to carry 10,000 pounds of bombs a distance of 10,000 miles.

If this country should ever be attacked by an aggressor nation, this mammoth plane, operating from bases available to the United States, could drop an atomic bomb on any city in the world.

In the mighty B-36 America can seek and find assurance that the US Army Air Forces are constantly striving to maintain this nation's position of leadership in the air.

Consolidated Vultee workers are proud that they were selected to work with the US Army Air Forces in designing and building this great new addition to America's strength in the air. They have a right to be!

With its crew of 15 men, the B-36 has a maximum bomb capacity of 72,000 pounds. Two tank cars are needed to carry the 21,000 gallons of gasoline to fill the fuel tanks of the B-36. This giant bomber has six engines with a total of eighteen thousand horsepower. The tail fin of the B-36 stands almost as high as the average 5-story apartment building. The 230-foot wingspread of the B-36 is 10 feet more than that of two B-24 Liberator bombers.

Did You Know About These 1946 Musical Events?

• January 6 – A somewhat revised and streamlined revival of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's Show Boat opens on Broadway at the Ziegfeld Theatre, the same theatre at which the original production played back in 1927. This production features newly designed sets and costumes, new, more extended choreography, and a new song, Nobody Else But Me, by Kern and Hammerstein.
• January 24 – Igor Stravinsky's Symphony in Three Movements premièred by the New York Philharmonic, conducted by the composer.
• February – Kathleen Ferrier's recording contract with Columbia Records expires, and she transfers to Decca.
• February 8 – Béla Bartók's Piano Concerto No. 3 is premiered posthumously by György Sándor with Eugene Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra
• August - Singer Doris Day leaves Les Brown's band and begins solo career.
• September 11 - The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra holds its first rehearsal.
• Al Jolson rerecords his old hits for the soundtrack of his Columbia biopic The Jolson Story (released October 10 in the United States), and becomes a superstar to the post-war generation as well B. B. King begins working as a professional musician in Memphis, Tennessee.
• Chet Atkins makes his first appearance at the Grand Ole Opry.
  Georgia Gibbs signs with the Majestic label.
• Bill Haley's professional musical career begins as a member of The Down Homers. His earliest known recordings are made during a Down Homers radio performance, but will not be released until 2006.

Dancing Quote: - "Quitters never win and winners never quit." ~anonymous